Category: liveblogging

  • My 2006 South by Southwest Journal (Very long)

    Every March between 2002 and 2010 I regularly attended an Austin tech conference called South by Southwest Interactive. In 2006 I offered  to TechBlog to blog about my misadventures at SXSW. I generally liked that experience although it kind of ruins the fun of attending the conference. Some of the tidbits are dated now (but…

  • And the best SXSWi blogger is…Daniel Terdiman

    After just a cursory look through blog postings, so far the person with the most reliable posts about SXSWi conference so far has been Daniel Terdiman from C.net news. Way to go, Daniel. Here’s an interview with Jane MacGonigel about The Lost Ring. Here’s her keynote, the Twitter phenom, the Frank Warren of Postsecrets keynote,…

  • Update: Going to SXSW March 8-11

    I’ll be heading to SXSW in Austin. I’ll be there between Saturday morning and Tuesday night. I’ll be staying part of Wednesday in Austin, then leaving for San Antonio on March 11. I really don’t plan to do a lot of blogging during that time, although I will encounter a lot of blogworthy topics, so…

  • Live-Blogging the Preakness: “I think we got nipped”

    5:04: Wow, my dad and I were talking about the Preakness and watching the interminable pregame show. It’s been on ESPN for maybe…4 hours? I am now back at home, and the preshow is still on. (One jockey appeared in a Claritin medicine commercial). So I thought I’d liveblog the event . Btw, I know…

  • Second Life Videostream Notes

    A few random notes about the talk (by the way, I’m adding to this same post after I post it once–the talk has started).   Last night I reacquainted myself with how to use SL (it’s been a while). Wow, it’s easy  to forget all this information if it’s not fresh on your brain. Wow,…

  • SXSW 2006 Diaries & Houston Events

    I’ve been busy with lots of things, but you might be interested in my diaries about attending SXSW. I finished the last installment a few days ago. Interestingly, several other groups have started in Houston to capitalize on SXSW momentum. Refresh Houston is a meeting of web developers and BarCamp Houston . I like upcoming.org…

  • SXSW Day 1 Can we trust them? How much do we share?

    (Liveblogging from SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. See previous posts. This post Originally appeared on techblog)  

  • SXSW Day 1: Toy Soldiers

    First posted on Techblog 

  • How to Fit in At SXSW

    The article below originally appeared on the Houston Chronicle’s Techblog 

  • SXSW Preview

    I’ll be posting intermittently on idiotprogrammer over the next two weeks. That’s because I’ll be liveblogging about SXSW Interactive for the Houston Chronicle’s Techblog site (Dwight Silverman’s weblog). Below is the full text of the preview piece I published today:

  • Pycon 3: Gadget Overkill

    I thought that bringing both my PDA and laptop to the Python conference was overkill until I ran into a man who brought 2 laptops and 1 PDA/Phone. “Having another laptop is convenient,” he said.  “That way, I can bring one laptop to a session while the other laptop is charging in my hotel room.…

  • Pycon Day 3: The Zen Nudge

    Last night, I was sitting around the conference lobby and overheard some people talking. One person was saying the conference was ok, though he’d heard nothing remarkable so far. Going to a techie conference can be a hit-or-miss thing. You never know what’s going to strike you, what’s going to be relevant. I’m reminded of…

  • Python/Linux/Nokia

    For the record, my last day working at Texas Instruments was Tuesday. (more on that later). But I’m now at a session about python programming for Nokia cellphones. (Nokia was Texas Instruments biggest customer). Curiously, in this room, I bumped into about 5 different owners of Nokia 770 PDAs, a device which  I own also. …

  • Pycon Day 2: Updates: Not Famous

    This morning I ran into someone who was wearing my exact same windbreaker. Yes, we admitted with embarrassment, we bought them at Walmart. At conferences like this, people are constantly looking at each other’s nametags to see if you’re famous (I’m not). Yesterday I sat through two tutorials: one on Text Processing with Python. Dry…